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" I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold... "
The Writings of George Washington: pt.i. Official letters relating to the ... - Page 444
by George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1834
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Discovery and Conquests of the North-west, with the History of Chicago

Rufus Blanchard - 1898 - 716 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Nothwithstanding...
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Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution

Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 556 pages
...my pole to prevent our being swept down the stream; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, and I was like to have drowned. This wind and sleet seem warm when I remember that ; and...
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George Washington, Volume 1

Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1900 - 380 pages
...that we expected every Moment our Raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs." They found that they could not cross the river, and quitted their raft to land on an island,...
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The Story of the Hall of Fame, Including the Lives and Portraits of the ...

Louis Albert Banks - 1902 - 420 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. " Notwithstanding...
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George Washington: A Character Sketch

Eugene Parsons - 1903 - 192 pages
...sink, and ourselves to perish. '• I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, that the , i ice might pass by: when the rapidity of the stream...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get the raft to either shore; but were obliged,...
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Life and Times of Washington, Volume 1

John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 588 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding...
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Life and Times of Washington, Volume 1

John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 540 pages
...of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get to either shore but were obliged as we...
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Pioneers on Land and Sea: Stories of the Eastern States and of Ocean ..., Book 1

Charles Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 288 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding...
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The United States, Their Origin and Growth

Edward Channing - 1904 - 166 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so 10 much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water." In this dangerous situation...
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... Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration and Washington's Farewell Address ...

Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - 1905 - 182 pages
...that we expected every Moment our Raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put-out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs. Notwithstanding all our Efforts we could not get the Raft to either Shore ; but were obliged,...
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